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- the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France …, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …
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Studies of individual wage dynamics typically ignore firm heterogeneity, whereas decompositions of earnings into worker and firm effects abstract from life-cycle considerations. We study firm effects in individual wage dynamics using administrative data on the population of Italian employers and...
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We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular attention to the question of whether workers on temporary contracts are affected differently than workers on permanent contracts. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic...
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We revisit the development of monthly wages in Germany between 2000 and 2017. While wage inequality strongly increased …
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This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables …
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purchasing power parity (ppp) and the wage ratio between the host and source countries. It is shown that in theory immigrants may … substitute consumption intertemporally. However, the empirical results from immigrants in Germany reveal that optimal migration …
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within education groups, our theory helps to explain (1) rising wage inequality between groups, and (2) rising wage …
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for Germany indicate that the type plays a crucial role in the remuneration of employees. Those types who change jobs more …
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This paper uses data from the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, a new international dataset of adult workers in 28 EU countries, to decompose the wage penalty of overeducated workers. The ESJ survey allows for integration of a rich, previously unavailable, set of factors in the...
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We study the monetary compensation for non-fatal accident risk in Switzerland using the number of accidents within …
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